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' J. H. BUSELL.

TOOL FOR BUBNISHING BOOTS OR SHOES. No. 393,537.

Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BUSELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOOL FOR BURNISHING BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,537, dated November 27, 1888,

Application filed September 8. 1886. Serial No. 284,000.

' consists in certain novel features of construction, which will be readily understood by reference to the description of the drawings and to the claims to be hereinafter given.

Figure 1 of the drawings is aplan of my improved burnishing-tool. Fig. 2is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aside elevation. Fig. i is asection on line a" x on Fig. 3.

In boot or shoe heels having concave edges the angle with which the vertical curvc meets the tread-surface varies according to the degree of curvature given to the heel'edge in different heels, and the angle at which said curve meets the treadsurfacc at the sides of the heel is more acute than at the rear in the same heel; hence, in order to properly burnish a portion of the curved heelviz., the top-lift edge, the top-lift bead or bevel, and a portion of the tread-surface of the hcelat one operation, the burnishi ng-tool must be so constructed as to lit approximately to said parts in each case, and to obviate the necessity of having as many burnishing-tools as there are styles of heels and render it practical to burnish the sides and rear of the heel without changing the tool is the object of my invention.

To this end I make the main body A of the burnishing-tool with a working-face having a shape as viewed in plan in the form of a segment of an ellipse or are of a circle of a radius less than the radius of the smallest curve of a series of heels, and provide the same with a shank, A, by which it may be secured in a suit able socket in the reciprocating tool-earrier.

The body A of the burnisher is provided with the shoulder a, extending the whole vertical length thereof, for the purpose of burnishing the top-lift head or bevel and contiguous thereto with the plane surface b, also extending the whole vertical length of said tool, said plane surface serving as a guide or rest for the tread-surface of the heel, a portion of which it (No model.)

serves to burnish as the tool is reeiprocated. 1 The remaining portion of the workingiaee of the tool A is headed or corrugated horizontally, as shown in Fig. 2.

To one side of the tool A is secured by the screws 6 c the supplemental tool 13, the working-face b of which is curved, as seen in crosssection, in the form of a segment of an ellipse or circle of a radius less than the radius of the quickest curve of the heeledge, and is headed or corrugated horizontally, as shown in Fig. 2. This su iiplemental tool B may be adjusted relative to the tool A by slackening the screws 0 c and setting up the set-screw d, or vice versa, so that the curved working-face thereof shall meet the plane surface I) of the tool A at the proper angle to fit the heel to be operated upon. To the opposite side of the tool A is secured in like manner by screws 0 the gageplate 0, which is provided with the shoulder f, for burnishing the top-lift bead or bevel, and with the set or adjusting screw-g, for adjusting said gage to the desired angle relative to the curved working-face of the tool A.

By the employment of the parts A and B, constructed and arranged as shown and described, the burnishing'tool maybe adjusted to lit to the tread-surfaces and the curved toplift edges of heels having different curves, and thereby be adapted to burnish the same, while the beaded portion of the part A is adapted to bu rnish the remainder of the heeledgc. By the further addition of the adjustable gage-plate G, the rear portion of the top lift may be burnished by presenting the heel to the burnishing-tool, as shown in dotted lines at D in Fig. 1, and the sides of said toplift edge may be burnished by presenting the heel to the tool, as shown in dot-ted lines at E in Fig. 1.

The tread-surface may be burnished by prcsenting the heel to the tool, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4, and traversing the heel horizontally at the same ti me that the burnishing-tool is being reciprocated vertically, and the convex portion of the heel-edge maybe burnished in the same manner as the tread surface.

By the use of a burnishingtool constructed as herein described several different patterns of heels having somewhat different curves may be burnished with the same tool by simply adjusting the parts B and 0 relative to the part A; but in order to cover the whole range of variation from a straight heel to the most concave heel several forms of the parts B and C will be required to be used interchangeably.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A burnisliing-tool composed ofa plurality of parts constructed and arranged to bear and operate at the same time upon the tread-surface and the curved edge of a boot or shoe heel, and adjustable relative to each other about an axis parallel to the plane of division between said parts and to the line of movement of said tool when in operation, whereby the angle between two contiguous burnishing-snrfaces may be varied to fit different forms of heels or different parts of the same heel.

2. In a burnishing tool, the combination of the main body A, provided with the shoulder a, and the part 13, provided with the beaded surface b',.said parts being constructed and arranged to bear and operate at the same time upon the tread-surface and the curved edge of a boot or shoe heel and adjustable relative to each other about an axis parallel to the plane of division between said parts and to the line of movement of said tool when in operaticn, whereby the angle between two contiguous burnishing-surfaces may be varied to cause said surface to fit the tread and the curved edge-surfaces of the heel at the same time, whatever may be the angle at which said heelsurfaces meet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeifieatiomin the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 27th day of August, A. D. 1888.

JAMES H. BUSELL.

W'itnosses:

\VALTER E. LOMBARD, N. C. LOMBARD. 

